Aliases: “the Taliban Slayer” (joke name given to her by the Anarchist)

Base of Operations: X-Statix HQ in Santa Monica, California;
formerly
Hawthorne House, ancestral home of the Hunters, in Europa

First Appearance: X-Statix#13 (October, 2003)

Powers/Abilities: Originally, Henrietta was a mutant gifted with
empathy, the ability to read and feel the emotions of others. She could sense
the pain of others.

After the first time she returned from the dead, she not only regained
her empathic abilities, but also the ability to communicate with ghostly spirits.

After the second time she died, Henrietta once again returned as a zombie-like
form. In this form, she, like other zombies, did not appear to require food
or oxygen to survive. She also appeared to be able to cause unlikely events
to happen that would cause death to those who sung her song. It is unknown
whether she retained any of her previous powers, as she did not display
any as a corpse.

History: (X-Statix#13 (fb)) - When Henrietta Hunter was a young
girl, she dreamed of becoming famous. As she grew up, she became Europa’s
hottest young pop star, until she was electrocuted and killed by a microphone
that someone had sabotaged.

(X-Statix#13) - Henrietta’s ghostly spirit returned to Hawthorne House,
the ancestral home of the Hunters. Her spirit levitated towards her body
and re-possessed it, resurrecting her with a happy “ta-da!” X-Statix eventually
arrived and saved her from the Europan government agents, who had recently
arrived to make sure Henrietta stayed dead. Upon saving her, X-Statix returned
to their HQ in Santa Monica, where Henrietta revealed that she was a mutant,
gifted with empathy. Soon after her return, she appeared on “Lacuna &
the Stars” to announce her comeback. After her show, Henrietta met with Spike
Freeman in Los Angeles to discuss the merchandising of her name, where she
was attacked by an assassin hired by Europan agents Dicky and Reggie. The
assassin’s plot was foiled by Doop and Spike Freeman then announced on television
that Henrietta was joining X-Statix. To announce her membership, X-Statix
appeared in New York with a red carpet arrival. While in New York, Henrietta
was attacked and kidnapped by the Euro-Trash.

(X-Statix#14) - The Euro-Trash retreated to an X-Statix Store in New
York, while X-Statix fought with themselves over whether or not to save her.
They eventually decided to save her and they teleported inside the store and
killed all the members of Euro-Trash. After saving Henrietta, X-Statix held
a press conference, where Henrietta revealed many of her charitable ideas.
Later, Henrietta visited young Jesus Diaz at the hospital, whose legs had
been amputated due to a landmine. Upon seeing her charitable spree, X-Statix
decided that they must kill her.

(X-Statix#15) - Henrietta relaxed aboard a yacht, when X-Statix appeared.
Lacuna tagged along on Venus’s teleportational coattails and warned Henrietta
that they were there to kill her. She then convinced X-Statix to rethink the
idea of killing Henrietta and they decided against it. Henrietta later joined
X-Statix on a mission to Afghanistan, where she took out several members of
a Taliban sect. When they returned to Santa Monica, X-Statix held a press
conference, where Henrietta was announced the new team leader and U. S. Secretary
of Homeland Defense.

(X-Statix#16) - After a modeling shoot involving her designs, Henrietta
led X-Statix on a wild goose chase in an attempt to locate Mister Code, a
mastermind responsible for various random sniper killings. Not having any
luck finding him, Henrietta returned to the X-Statix HQ and used her abilities
to communicate with ghostly spirits to aid her in throwing a dart to Mister
Code’s location on a giant map of the U. S. As she asked for help from the
spirits, Dead Girl also spoke with the deceased in an attempt to throw Henrietta
off course and further ruin Ms. Hunter’s image. When Henrietta appeared on
television, she was pelted with fruit and other trash due to her faltering
public image associated with her lack of locating the random killer.

(X-Statix#17) - Henrietta led X-Statix as they broke into Lacuna’s lawyers’
offices to retrieve the incriminating evidence against them. Unfortunately,
her lawyer had turned the evidence over to the press, ruining X-Statix’s image.
In order to fix their image, X-Statix decided that they had to stop Mister
Code. Determining his location thanks to Dead Girl communicating with Spike
Freeman’s corpse, Venus teleported X-Statix into battle against Mister Code.
During the battle, Mister Code broke Henrietta’s neck and he himself was
killed by the Orphan.

(X-Statix#18) - After Henrietta’s second death, her record company released
a single entitled “Back from the Dead,” which mysteriously killed anyone who
sang the song aloud. A young boy named Jamie sang the song and was killed
almost instantly after singing it. Also, a man named Chester and his son Ethan
were both killed after singing the song. Following the death and funeral of
X-Statix member Phat, another X-Statix member, El Guapo, sang the song and
briefly saw the reanimated corpse of Henrietta, causing him to fly his skateboard
off course, crash into a plate glass window, and impale himself on his own
board. In order to get to the bottom of the deaths caused by Henrietta’s single,
X-Statix had Dead Girl sing the song. She was instantly destroyed and as
she was reforming herself, she too saw Henrietta’s corpse. After speaking
a bit with Henrietta’s corpse, Dead Girl discovered that Henrietta was taking
her revenge on those who wanted her dead by killing any who sung her song
aloud. X-Statix decided to travel to Europa and confront the president of
Europa. They then forced the president to sing her song. As he did, Henrietta’s
form once again reappeared and X-Statix left the president to Henrietta’s
wrath.

Comments: Created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred.

As originally written this character was to be Princess Diana, and
the storyline involving her was to be titled "Di Another Day". However someone
higher up in Marvel (rightly, imho) felt this would be seen as extremely
poor taste and garner a lot of bad publicity. So late in the day the story
was swiftly re-written and redrawn/recolored to change the character to Europan
popstar Henrietta Hunter. The last minute nature of the change means certain
story points don't make much sense, as they are holdovers from the original
plan. However, if you read the story again knowing who she was meant to
be, the visiting of landmine victims and the reasons why government officials
should want her to stay dead, become much clearer. - Loki

Chester and Ethan were a father and son who locked themselves in their
panic room. When Ethan asked why they locked themselves in, Chester replied
that he had accidentally started singing Henrietta’s post-death single and
to prevent himself from mysteriously dying afterwards, he locked himself
in the panic room. While inside, Ethan began to sing the song and when Chester’s
wife found them, they had choked each other to death.

- X-Statix#18

JAMIE

Jamie was a young boy who listened to Henrietta’s post-death single.
When he sung the song aloud, a flower pot crashed down upon his head, killing
him.

- X-Statix#18

JESUS DIAZ

Jesus Diaz was a young boy who lost his legs to a landmine left behind
from a war fought in his country. While in the hospital, he was visited by
Henrietta Hunter, where he claimed he wanted to join X-Statix.

- X-Statix#14 (X-Statix#14(fb), 16

JUSTIN

Justin was one of the workers aboard the yacht in which Henrietta Hunter
relaxed upon.

- X-Statix#15

OMAR

Omar was a cruise worker aboard Henrietta’s yacht. He arrived in time
to rub some suntan lotion on Henrietta’s back, but was quickly knocked overboard
by Phat when X-Statix arrived to kill her.